Other Residents of the Farm

As I said before, in addition to the 10 horses there are other animal residents. Puck and Petrucchio are twin goats, wethers (neutered boys). They are 12 years old and are wonderful pets who love hanging out with the horses. This is them running with Deja and Sundance.

In the house I have 2 parrots, Sierra and Theodore. They are amazon parrots and have been here since the mid 1990's. They are both somewhere between 10 and 15 years old and since they should live until they are around 50 (assuming they stay healthy) they'll be here a long time to come.

Tootsie is the only current feline resident on the farm. She is a tiny - 6.5 lb - tortoise-shell colored cat with double paws behind and triple paws in front. Tootsie is about 18 years old and still catching mice! She doesn't put up with any baloney from the dogs either!

Speaking of dogs, there are 3. Sadie is my beagle, she's about 13 now and a bit crotchety. I got her when she was 3 months old. Echo is a rescue from the local shelter. She is a medium sized dog, about 45 lbs., with long black hair, some kind of mix, who knows??? She is very sweet and a real love bug but she is also very nervous and shy with strangers (though she is better than she used to be). She was badly abused, including being shot. She needed lung x-rays a few years ago and we discovered she is full of birdshot, all over her body - both sides! Poor baby!!!! I got Echo when she was just 1 year old (a lot of abuse in a short time) and she is now about 7. Last but certainly not least is Rosy. Rosy is a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog and she will turn 2 in February. Unfortunately she has some health issues - hips, allergies - but I love her to pieces! She goes almost everywhere with me and stays right near me (Sadie and Echo are not so well behaved!). Rosy weighs just over 100 lbs and she has a big, fierce bark which scares people. She is a great watchdog, but not such a good guard dog - if they get too close she runs and hides behind me! I like that she makes a lot of noise but isn't aggressive. I'm sure I will be adding pics of everyone eventually, for now this is Rosy on the left, and Rosy and Echo on the right, taking a break at a walk-a-thon we do for the Humane Society.